Design Week
17 September 1998
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A few words about words
17 September 1998
On the subject of words, have you noticed how little sense there is in the rationale given by most design groups for their work? Having sat through many a presentation where verbiage overshadows the quality of the work, I wonder what clients make of these bids to "reposition the brand", "challenge the consumer" and "appeal to a younger market".
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ARCHITECTURE
17 September 1998
London Open House celebrates London's wealth of architecture and aims to promote public awareness of architecture. Buildings added to this year's list include Lloyd's of London by Richard Rogers Partnership and the Imagination building. The event takes place on 19-20 September. (Shown above: Stephen Hawking School)
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Branding pitch at Thomas Cook
17 September 1998
Coley porter bell appears to be re-entering the identity arena, as one of a three-strong shortlist for travel and financial services giant Thomas Cook's rebranding.
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Brief
17 September 1998
The Moving Picture Company was part of the team which created the latest on-screen ident for Network 2, the channel operated by Dublin's RTE TV station. The Cell, designed and directed by RTE designer Rory Kelleher, follows on from MPC's first series of idents. Live action footage shot in a water tank was combined with 'exceptional organic 3D work', says Kelleher. The Cell goes on air later this month.
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Brief
17 September 1998
The obscure dance fanatic who lives and breathes underground dance music is catered for with this CD from Sony Music. In-house designer Leigh Smith used the visual pun of a camouflage rucksack for the sleeve of Sounds From The Irish Under Ground. The pun continues on the back, with the reference to the transport map. Smith is one of four designers at Sony's graphics studio Blue.
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Brief
17 September 1998
Zulver & Co uses photographs shot from unusual angles to help create the illusion that the musical instruments are at one with their players, in this new brochure for The Philharmonia Orchestra.
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Brief
17 September 1998
Studio Dillon managing director Jane Dillon aims to combine extreme safety with a toy-like quality in this new animal lights range, due to launch early next month. 'The lamps are very figurative because I hope children will come to treat them almost as a toy. But this could also be very dangerous if, for example, they decide to take it to bed with them,' says Dillon. Safety features for the lamps include a low volume transformer and an inner protective shade, and the lamps conform to ...
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Brief
17 September 1998
Design consultancy Eureka! has injected a spirit of liberty and wellbeing into The Mental Health Association's latest annual report, by including a range of uplifting black and white photographs by Alexander Reilly. The mental health charity is committed to educating the public that those with learning disabilities and mental health problems should be given the opportunity to lead fulfilling and independent lives, within the community.
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Briefs
17 September 1998
FLB has created the packaging for Action Meal, a chicken-based snack to be sold under the Sun Valley-owned Action Man brand. The meal targets 4-10-year-olds.
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Briefs
17 September 1998
Industrial designers Christoph Lefteri and Toni Papaloizou used thermoforme and recyclable polypropylene for this takeaway Mash Bento Box they created for London restaurant Mash. It comprises three layers. The top section holds cutlery, napkins and condiments, the middle section the starter and main course and the bottom layer, the desert. The handle holds the layers together.
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'Can't help, not won't help' with fee queries
17 September 1998
Well done, you've found another stick to beat us with. - We've carried out an inquisition here at Saffron Hill, but can't find out who was guilty of referring the alleged calls to you (Diary, DW 4 September).
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Carter Wong steps in for The Place website
17 September 1998
Carter Wong & Partners has revamped the website for contemporary dance venue The Place to emphasise the energy and excitement generated by the dancers.
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Charity initiative targets design
17 September 1998
The Media Trust and Ind Associates are surveying the design needs of Kensington & Chelsea's 450 charities, as part of a pan-London initiative.
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Cheeky Monkeys
17 September 1998
Cheeky underwear company Brass Monkeys believes it has hit the bullseye with its new packaging style, tapping into the ironic machismo that passes for wit among Loaded readers.The new packaging features an illustrated, nude hunk ironically sporting a Brass Monkeys logo over his private parts. The illustration is by artist John Geary.'This will give Brass Monkeys stand-out in a cliché-ridden market,' promises a Brass Monkeys spokeswoman.
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Cobalt gets timing right in watch deals
17 September 1998
COBALT has started working on concession concepts for its dedicated watch store Watch2Watch, following approaches from six major department store chains wanting to include the format in their retail offer.
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Crazy football draw
17 September 1998
Would-be revellers were disappointed last week when the design industry's Network Shield '98 football tournament draw was cancelled, after last-minute flooding at the venue, Ryan's Bar in London.
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DTI promotes design opportunities in Portugal
17 September 1998
Privatisation and a greater awareness of the commercial benefits of good branding were given as opportunities for UK designers in Portugal, following the Department for Trade and Industry's seminar there last week.
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Events
17 September 1998
The Typographic Circle Quiz 1998 will take place on 22 September at 7pm. The annual test of typographic knowledge aims to find the consultancy experts and the individual Typophile of the Year. Contact: Patrick Baglee by end of tomorrow to register a team: patrick.baglee@realtime.co.uk
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Fern Green to brand Boots Dentalcare
17 September 1998
Fern Green Partnership in London is in the final stages of branding work for Boots Dentalcare, the dental practice venture planned by Boots The Chemists.
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FUTURE DATES
17 September 1998
The European Design Innovation Tool Conference - Design: The Integrative Challenge takes place on 12 November in The Netherlands. The main topic of the event is innovation by integrating design in business strategy, technology and marketing.
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Generic types
17 September 1998
Michael Johnson examines the new 'remixed' edition of Lewis Blackwell's anthology of 20th century type which has been given a design overhaul and has introduced some interesting new elements. Michael Johnson is design director of Johnson Banks.
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Greig & Stephenson goes Dutch in-store
17 September 1998
Upmarket Dutch department store de Bijenkorf opens its first new-build outlet for 15 years today. Greig & Stephenson created interior and external architecture, with Virgile & Stone and Dutch group Merkx & Girod working jointly on interiors.
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Halfords gears up for change
17 September 1998
Halfords, the 410-strong motor and cycling accessories division of The Boots Group, is considering new store format proposals from a number of design groups.
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Here you are, Martin
17 September 1998
Keen not to disappoint regular DW readers, Design Week fulfils the request of Gremlin Interactive's Martin Calpin. - 'As a cutting edge designer,' he writes, 'imagine my surprise to find that this week's issue has no photograph of Kate Irving in it.
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Identica revamps PR
17 September 1998
The Identica Partnership has redesigned the identity for UK public relations company The Communication Group, to emphasise the integrated nature of the client's business.
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Ideo buys into The Fourth Room
17 September 1998
Global product design group Ideo has acquired a 25 per cent stake in The Fourth Room - the strategic consultancy set up earlier this year by Michael Wolff with former Newell and Sorrell directors Piers Schmidt and Russell Lloyd, and market research specialist Wendy Gordon.
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Imagination should be key to creative heads
17 September 1998
It isn't surprising that Michael Wolff took the title head of imagination at Fourth Room (see News, page 3). It's an apt moniker for one of design's more original thinkers, described affectionately by Fourth Room chief executive Piers Schmidt as "the ultimate leaper". It would, though, be interesting to know what that other visionary Gary Withers, creative head of the consultancy Imagination, thinks of the move.
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INS and FLB shortlisted for DBA Awards
17 September 1998
Interbrand Newell and Sorrell and FLB have both been shortlisted in three categories for the Design Business Association's Design Effectiveness Awards. The awards will be made on 26 October.
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Jenners brings in BDG McColl
17 September 1998
BDG McColl Retail and Leisure, working with the group's Edinburgh office, has been appointed to redevelop the designer menswear section of Edinburgh department store Jenners.The new concept will be installed from January 1999, and aims to position the store as the leading men's fashion store in Scotland. BDG McColl is also to project manage the implementation of the design.
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Jolly good, Phillipa
17 September 1998
The Partners project manager Phillipa Whitney has put her colleagues in the design world to shame, mixing physical exercise and cultural fulfilment, with good old-fashioned chaaridy fund raising.Whitney achieved all this while cycling 200 miles over Russia's more craggy terrain, in Downside Up's Annual Charity Bike Ride earlier this month.She raised 3000 for the charity, which aims to change attitudes towards Down syndrome children in Russia.
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Learning to harness the forces of nature
17 September 1998
Learning from nature is the basis of all good science, but this is beginning to take on a more literal meaning. Mike Evamy discovers that the smart scientists are a bunch of potato heads.
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Light & Coley in the media
17 September 1998
Light & Coley has created a new corporate identity and literature for BBJ Media Services, to communicate the broadening range of services it offers within media planning and buying.
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M&EDG provides a voice for exhibition designers
17 September 1998
Letters to the Editor should be sent to Design Week, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX. Fax: 0171-970 4165. e-mail Design-week@centaur.co.uk
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Mind your language
17 September 1998
Michael Johnson's posters for the British Council's offices have endeared him to the media. Tom Bawden looks at other elements of the job, which will jazz up the council's classrooms.
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Natural idea from TKO
17 September 1998
The world of scientific research, semiconductor processing and diagnostic imaging does not readily suggest myriad stunning design opportunities. But design group TKO rose to the challenge of injecting creative dynamism into Oxford Instruments' INCA range of computer processors and electronic lab equipment, for use in these very fields.
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New shoes by Four IV
17 September 1998
Four IV Design Consultants has created a new designer shoe department for the Harvey Nichols store in Knightsbridge, which went live last week.The department uses beautiful carpets and dramatic lights together with brown and orange colours to 'create a calm haven of luxury', says Four IV creative director Gregor Jackson.
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New store concepts launched at Trafford
17 September 1998
THE 600m Trafford Centre, designed by Chapman Taylor Partnership, opened its doors to the public last week with a number of new store formats.
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Not every one-man set-up is 'having-a-go'
17 September 1998
I am writing in response to Tony Huggett's letter (DW 7 August). I am in agreement with him on the "have-a-go mentality", which makes it increasingly difficult to justify fees to the client. This is especially so when clients feel perfectly comfortable to discuss the finer, more refined points of design just because they sit in front of a computer, with clip-art capabilities.
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Nucleus on call for telecom group
17 September 1998
One of Europe's biggest private sector multiservice telecommunications providers this week launched a new telephone division.
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O'Higgins to leave Landor
17 September 1998
Newsdesk: Clare Dowdy 0171-970 4000
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Reading the signs
17 September 1998
Nicky Churchill looks at the signage systems being developed for three major projects, and discovers a surprising difference in approach.
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RFA takes on Seabird Centre
17 September 1998
RFA Designers is working as exhibition consultant to the Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick, the first large scale interpretation and education centre of its type in the UK.RFA's work includes the Gannet Experience (pictured), a sound and light show. The new building is by Edinburgh architect Simpson & Brown.
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Selfridges up north
17 September 1998
Kay Greetham braves the crowds at Manchester's Trafford Centre to sample the splendours of the new Selfridges store. She found it to be an oasis of calm. Kay Greetham is an interior designer at Manchester design group Judge Gill.
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Staff shuffle at BAA as design offer centralised
17 September 1998
Design managers at airport operator BAA have undergone a round of musical chairs as part of a restructuring bid aimed at centralising design services within the company.
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The first steps towards gaining a better posture
17 September 1998
I have some suggestions for the Letters page correspondent suffering from back pain (DW 11 September). My arm, neck and shoulder were strained and aching after a stint of long hours. The cure came via an article faxed to me by my brother.
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The millennium toast
17 September 1998
A recent poll to identify this century's most significant object has thrown up some surprising candidates, giving Janice Kirkpatrick an attack of millennium angst.
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Verner Panton dies
17 September 1998
Danish designer and architect Verner Panton has died aged 72. Last September he designed an installation at Erco Lighting showroom in London with architect Pierre Botschi.
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Well done, Bob
17 September 1998
Congratulations to Bob Marshall, design adviser at Business Link Devon & Cornwall, for recognising last week's mystery man as Glenn Tutssel.
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Whitby Abbey lands Lottery cash
17 September 1998
Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire is to benefit from a new museum and visitor centre, and the restoration of a 17th century garden, after a 2.04m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Women win honours
17 September 1998
Lewis Moberly creative director Mary Lewis and Interbrand Newell and Sorrell artistic director Francis Newell were among 75 women of achievement honoured at Women's Advertising Club of London's 75th anniversary dinner. Lewis and Newell were honoured for their contributions to the field of communications.
